There is no arguing with true believers in any ideology or arrangement in which the self-interest of those in power is the organizing principle of the system.

A piece of oatmeal stuck in the underhang of Roy's lip. May sipped her morning coffee, watching it bob as he spoke.

Meredith Nicholson becomes the 44th President of the United States and Milton Stafford becomes the country's First Gentleman. […] After all what were husbands—”First Gentlemen”—good for if they didn’t go above and beyond for the ones they loved.

The text is 'suffused with decorous domesticity', which, [Richard] Altick has argued, is due to its rigorous omission of the 'idiosyncrasies that made [[Alfred, Lord] Tennyson] the engaging and often formidable character he was – his vanity, his atrabiliousness [and] his shaggy Lincolnshire abruptness.'